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Can't right click anything in ie

open in new tab/window not working

Find on this page "empty"

tabs on Favorites pane missing

about screen and other dialogs "empty"

IE8 closes immediately (not if caused by an add-on!)

can't print (interface not registered)

Facebook/Hotmail page blank after Login.

Follow the following steps in the described order.

1: Open the run window by pressing the Windows key + R and type in inetcpl.cpl then click on OK. Be sure to close any open internet explorer windows and end any iexplore.exe processes in the task manager

2: The internet options box should open up. Navigate to the Advanced tab and click on reset, and check the box to delete any personal browser customizations and click on reset to reset the Internet Explorer to factory Defaults. You'll lose all saved history and clear out temporary files and folders after doing this so if you'd rather not lose your saved history and login passwords skip to step 3.

Restart the internet explorer if
you are able to the right click on the page, if not go to the next step.

3: Download this zip file, extract it to the desktop and run
the .cmd in it applicable to your PC. If your PC is a 32 - bit PC, use only the
file named ie8-rereg.cmd, if you have a 64 bit PC run the other two .cmd files.
Please note that you have to run them both using administrative priviliges if
your OS is Windows Vista or 7.

This fix can also
repair multiple internet explorer problems suck as being unable to print from
internet explorer, secure sites browsing and unable to open new tabs in
internet explorer and similar such issues. All credit goes to Kai Schätzl of
IEfaq.info for this fix.

Restart internet explorer to check
for any more issues. If you are still facing issues with Internet explorer
perform a malware scan using

So i was recently tasked with removing wireless restrictions from a VP's windows 7 laptop that some infrastructure company had placed while contracted with our network, since he needed to enable setting up of adhoc connections on his laptop and he always got

"The policies of your network prevent the creation of ad hoc (computer-to-computer) networks. For more information, contact your system administrator."

A little bit of probing revealed that adhoc and peer to peer connections were blocked as evidenced by the the command

netsh wlan show filter on an elevated command prompt revealed that adhoc network type was blocked by group policy:

I removed the restrictions by:

1: open services.msc as administrator, scroll down to WLAN AutoConfig:

Open gpedit.msc and browse to the location /Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Internet Communication Management/Internet Communication Settings and double click "turn off access to all windows update features" and set it to disabled.

We had a migration from Hosted Exchange to Office 365 and i was tasked with automating the local Outloook profile migration for Users:

I Created a GUI utility using powershell which would allow users to create an Office365 Profile and set it as default, I prepared PRF files for each version of office and an autodiscover.xml to be used for local autodiscover and uploaded them to a hosted site:

The PRF file to set settings for Office 365 are hard to find: i used the below entries: